Roadmap or Compass? The Value of Prior Collaborative Experience in an Unfamiliar Task Environment

The authors thank Matt Cummins, Abraham Oshotse, and Yuan Tian for their valuable research assistance. The authors are grateful to Deborah Gruenfeld and Benoît Monin, as well as seminar participants at Carnegie Mellon University, INSEAD, London Business School, Stanford University, and Yale University for constructive comments. Research support was provided by the Data, Analytics, and Research Computing (DARC) group at the Stanford Graduate School of Business (RRID:SCR_022938). Both authors contributed equally.